Farming in the 1800's - Ross Farm Museum, Nova Scotia | HOMESTEAD | PIONEER | CANADIAN | FRONTIER 

Thanks for sharing and taking us back to a time when folks respected the land

You may not realise this Peter, but you enable us all to escape the current insanity and focus on an era when life had a real quality and "essentialness" about it; sure life was hard and demanding in those days but people actually lived with the natural environment and thrived despite all deprivations and hardship. Thank you sir for your 18th century therapy.

Shows few have survival skills truly mastered.

That shingle cutter is mind blowing

What Beautiful original buildings and livestock! It’s one of the things I Love living with many Amish farms here in Lancaster County, the Amish with their horses and mules in the fields and buggies. The horses don’t have the best time with hard roads and impatient drivers plus quite hilly as well but the Amish have a strong community and simple living. I Love to see the teams in the fields and after plantings the surfaces of the fresh earth with horse or mule tracks. Often the teams are six work horses or mules and it’s easy to place yourself back in our Ancestors time. Thank You Much! The oxen are so beautiful! People don’t realize that oxen often pulled the Conestoga wagons and teamsters were often recognized by the tone of their bells. Conestoga is the name of an Indian Nation by the Susquehanna River, later a town and where Conestoga wagons were created.They were huge and beautiful with amazing iron work! My Mentor told me the hickory axles were treated in a special curing solution they soaked in for a time. This tempered them to the point of axes bouncing off when struck. So many amazing methods, tools and ways of life have become extinct but quite a few have been revived, Thanks to You, Kathy and Friends! Many Blessings! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania

The little horse of iron. You know, I am getting a little long in the tooth. But my grandfather, born 1871, as a boy, cleared bottom land with a team of oxen and as he and his uncle watched a hawk fly across the hill tops his uncle commented, "you know, some day people will be able to fly just like that hawk." My grandfather, a boy, thought he was crazy. Not until the 1930s, my parents time, rural areas were without electricity and electrification was the biggest thing to come along. All that progress and working together for the world we live in today and yet, in my country, we are more divided by politics, ignorance, and selfish drive for power than at any time in my memory. It saddens me. Excellent video., by the way. Thanks.

If a video with twenty-two hundred views does not have a single dislike, you know you've done it right.

My grandfather (1902-1994) had a best friend who was a near neighbor and fellow farmer, and he did historical farming including plowing competitions with mules. I think he would have enjoyed your videos. Mr. Engle would have been born in the 1800's I would guess.

Im starting to see you as a much needed Canadian version of the Townsends channel.

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The best hour I have spent in a long time. If I could turn back time I would have loved to be employed at a pioneer village. Thank you for sharing this.

Peter I thoroughly enjoy all your videos & I always look forward to the new ones you make! Looking back on how tough early settlers had it compared to how we have it made today gives me a new appreciation of what we have now days. This video was one of your best! Thank you!

amazing episode. could have been split in 2 parts but you don't hear me complaining. amazing.

A grand segment. Very much enjoyed the 'history' of the livestock. The 'industrialization' of the farm changed the workings so much. I think while it took the labor away some, stress replaced it. Good on ya.

Hi Peter, A wonderful step back in time! My late father was born in 1929 and left school at 14 year of age as they did back then. During WW2 he was living in the Peterborough area of England which borders the Fenlands of East Anglia. His mother had died in 1940 of TB and my Grandfather was in the army having been called up as a reserve after serving during the Wars so my father and his siblings were handed over the the Dr Barnardo’s homes organisation for the duration of the War. After he left school he worked on a farm and I remember him telling me that one of his jobs was to walk behind a pair of ploughing horses. We think of horses being used for these heavy jobs as something from centuries ago but they were still the usual method of pulling a plough (certainly on British farms) up until the late 1940’s. Children today are amazed that horses were doing still doing this work up until just one generation ago (on my timeline) and that tractors were unheard of until the end of the War when they became available after the American Airforce returned home and left the tractors behind that they had used to move their heavy bombers around the airfields. Up until then the horse had done the work unless a farmer had money and could rent a pair of steam ploughing engines that drew a plough across the field on strong steel cables. I knew a man near where I live who’s family made their money through renting out sets of steam ploughing engines and he still owned a couple that had been bought by his Grandfather at the turn of the twentieth century. Most farmers when my father was young relied on horses though. I do recall that he said at harvest time there would be a threshing engine that would tour the farms in turn to thresh the corn. The machine was driven by a leather belt from an accompanying steam traction engine, the machine could do the work far faster than the farm labourers could. A local village show the family and I attend every year usually has one of these machines doing a working demonstration but it’s driven from a vintage tractor, far safer than a coal fired steam engine! Best wishes, Mark

NO WAY NO WAY THIS IS WICKED I went here once for 3 hours and it wound up shaping my hobbies for well over a decade. Special place in my heart for this place.

Quite the interesting video, loved the running of the farm. Especially liked the photo of you and Cathy at the end. Thank you.

Wow Peter, that was tremendous. You gave us a great perspective of settler life at Ross Farm, loved the closing in particular. You’ve talked about your farming days and now we’ve seen it!! Thank you so much.

You never disappoint with your videos. There's alot of things I miss about the west and most of em are my Percherons and a couple other nags. I have always wanted Canadians and was under the impression they were just a Percheron - Morgan cross.

Truly it has never been the tool, but rather the man given the tool and his heart that makes a better place.

This was perfect. So love seeing living history and learning new ways people lived in the past. Bravo!

Appreciate your efforts and dedication! Love these historical sites. We have a few in the area and one not too far away in neighboring Ohio. Thanks for taking us along and really enjoyed the trip down memory lane with your photos. Thanks again keep your powder dry!

Thanks Peter, top notch again.

outstanding, excellent !!!

Great work again!!! I recognized this place right away as it’s in my neck of the woods.

Every image is a work of art.

Well another thing in common! We too had alittle iron horse name Winston! Excellent video! Thank you

Thank you so much! Excellent

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Fascinating..

Wow! I was so surprised to learn you did Civil War Re-enactments. My husband did for 28 years. Commander of Terry’s Texas Rangers. Cav. Of course. He went all over, even to Gettysburg twice. By the way George Washington is my 7th Great Uncle. We really Enjoy your channel.

Didn't know you did Civil War reenactments! That's a topic right up my alley. I see you're a Yank! Great video and reminds me of when I was young and helping the old timers as a wheelwright.

Great video Peter l could spend a lot of time at this great place here in the uk 🇬🇧 we have one place called beamish a big outdoor Museum little towns of different periods 1900 a pit village 1950s town 1940s with Electric trams going all around you can ride my Daughter and l love going there and never get fed up with this great place now sir I do admire your red coat and yes I would wear one but I think l would be giving some jip wearing a coat like that and as a joiner would love to do the wood working thanks 😊

Loved this video. Loads of history and the photo of you and your wife at the end of the video is beautiful. Thank you.

I very much enjoy your channel I live in New Ross Indiana.

Finally a recent video. I have been catching up on all your older videos and loving every one. Ross Farm is just a short car drive for me and I visit regularly a couple of times each year. Hello to everyone watching.

Another great video

Wow thanks well done

This was fascinating thanks for sharing! I live not too far from New Ross, Wexford, Ireland

This was amazing, thank you

Great program, what a history lesson for us. It was a lot of work but people really had it pretty nice back then and it’s remarkable the thought that went into making tools to make there products. They were really smart back then. Thanks Peter (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸

How could you keep full attention for an hour on the subject. Absolutely fascinating & mind blowing. Well done & obviously off the cuff!! That is some vast flat land there.

I love your channel.

Great video! Like usual, I always learn something.

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Reading through old accounts, the phrase "rum rations were cut off" probably caused quite a ruckus with the soldiers.

This took me a few 'sits', but it was Wonderfully interesting and informative. Having a tour guide is one thing, but when 'history lived' comes walking through your door = Peter and Catherine, the 'tour' becomes legend 4 worth.. From the pics at the end...What haven't both you n' Catherine done? What I find of intrigue, is how the settlers came to understand so well the 'capacities/qualities' of both the land and the animals. There is a 'kind of instinct' buried within us that surfaces in time of need and I think it is a 'deep call' to TRUE satisfaction in life. Could it B that this is the 'why' behind all the 'homesteading' lifestyles that R 'cropping' (all puns intended :) ) up everywhere? Arborist that U R, I wonder if U wonder if 'red maples' might be grown on your homestead? U had that 'query' look about U. I like George Washington's words here; "I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can B rendered 2 any country than by improving it's agriculture, it's breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares." Thank-you kindly. Health n' God Bless!

What a beautiful farm, amazing that they have all that different implements to make things as they would have been made in 1830s!!Thanks for sharing this adventure.

Those pictures at the end are superb. Love the farming with the horses.

absolutely excelent and interesting vid, Thanks...Creator bless...doug

Hi from Syracuse NY USA everyone thank you for sharing your adventures and pictures

Thank you for sharing another great video, educating and reminding us of how things were done. I am beginning to liken you to what Roy Underhill was doing here in the States before his show went off the air. We appreciate the time and effort to do these videos, you are filling a void.Thank you. I wish more of the younger crowd would take stock like your generation did in the 70's to help preserve this history. Anxious to see what you share in your next video!

The animals and the buildings are BEAUTIFUL! This is one of your best visits yet. It went right to my replay list.

Hey Peter , how about a " a wee bit of history " on the weight of that bail of hay , I've lifted some hay in my life , but that bail looks , really heavy ,more than a hundred and twenty pounds . ( Or is a little lose fitting ) could you let us know . Oh and thank you for another amazing video , I know your favorite is the black smith part , but I really love the " time period " livestock ,/ animals ,) amazing . Oh and that bail looks like it's a couple hounded pounds at least three hundred pounds , but I'm sure he wasn't swinging that kind of weight around .

Excellent Peter, I like where this channel is going, very, very educational. Love the content. Well done. Can't wait to see where you go from here.

Much more interesting than I thought it would be. These living history museums are really awesome, and this one seems pretty special. If anyone is interested, I found a book called "the Backwoods of Canada", by Catherine Parr Traile. She was an elementary school teacher who came with her husband, a British military man, for a land grant, and they settle in what is now Upper Canada Village (?). Through letters to home, she documented much of what it was like to start from really zero, and build a town. Great book. Even has a few recipes and instructions at the end. One of my ancestors came from England in the early 1800’s and settled in a township in New Brunswick. So they would have lived through some of this.

Kathy is getting really good with that camera. this is an amazing episode. professional quality

That was truly prime! Thank you for these films. They are inspiring!

Another great video!

Outstanding video!

Another great video Peter, Thank-you. Watch your top knot. First time I have seen you in red

Outstanding. Thanks for sharing Peter.

Great episode! I feel like I just went on a vacation!

Enjoyed this. Beautiful horse. Also, it was cool seeing the older picture of you and your wife. Thanks for sharing all this.

Great video! interesting That’s a very nice photo of you both at very end of the video 🙂

This was an amazing visit. So many ancient/vintage skills being preserved. These folks were really quite a knowledgeable group, seldom encountered. I would love to visit some day. Your visit here is very rewarding Peter!😀

That must be a great place to visit, you can just feel the history! Thanks for taking us along on this journey!

Amazing episode. The coopering part was brilliant. Thank you for this.

Amazing Peter. Everything you needed you had to make. Remarkable and thanks.

Thank you for this materials and time you all have spent on making this! I enjoyed each moment

What a history lesson loved it!!!

Very interesting video

This video is so interesting, even to an old woman! Thank you so very much for sharing.

Great video!

This had to be so hard, yet, at the same time, so satisfying. Lovely home, thanks for sharing this.

Hi, Peter! Great video and thanks for the tour. It is fascinating how industrialized everything became between 1750 and 1850. Such as, the advancements with cooperage. Also, how they made machinery for mass production of goods was such an accomplishment. Awesome you are also interested in the American civil war. I had 5 grandfathers that were soldiers. 3 one one side 2 on the other. Thanks for sharing those pictures very cool! See ya on your next . Take care ! 👍

Very interesting did not know a place that did 1860 actually that's my time. I do like 1700 time. + 1860 thank you for this video I would like to look up these guys and buy some barrels for my corn brooms thank you

In old Greece the horses and the mool it was the standard for evry good home it whas necessary tool whith out can't farm

I’ll bet that horse loves you!

One of your best episodes yet! Isn’t Ross Farm where the cast from “Curse of Oak Island” take all their iron artifacts to be dated?

It would be nice to live long enough to apprentice their 10 years.

Im alittle late in catching this,but I enjoyed it 🙂.

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There's no free lunch you've got to take advantage of everything you can conserving energy conserving wood and if you're unscrupulous in your product to take advantage of others...

Peter, you were a handsome devil in your youth. LOL

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Im laughing. Good show but I couldnt get past the huge fly on the guys pants with ALL the buttons. I hope he wasnt ever in a hurry to pee..........

That doesn’t look much fun for the oxen...

What's with the walking stick? You go lame or what?